Dark fin chromis

Scientific name : Chromis atripes

Small light brown chromis, with dark soft parts of dorsal and anal fins. Also tail peduncle fading into dark in the upper and lower parts. A small black spot at the base of the upper rays of pectoral fin. The tail ends with tiny filaments. Yellow eye with a vertical black bar. 7 cm. A Plankton feeder. This is part of a group of small chromis species, sometimes difficult to identify. The group includes (amongst the species described here) Chromis atripes, Chromis amboinensis, Chromis lepidolepis, Chromis elerae, Chromis ternatensis, Chromis weberi. A good system to distinguish between them, is to look carefully at the spots on the fins and at the eye's colour.
C. atripes is very similar to C. amboinensis, well distinguished by the eye colour.